The New York Times today would like to suggest that storytelling is powerful, that, in the whole art/life dynamic, it’s life that imitates art, not the other way around, at least not when it comes to kids imagining viable career paths for themselves. For instance, too many “Dilbert” perusals and Office Space viewings…
Today is a wonderful day for mocking online publications.
We're now in year six of sunny post-racial America, and things are going great, right!?! We have a biracial president, and, uh...Halle Berry won an Oscar that time...and...a vocal contingent of Americans will eagerly whip themselves into a racist frenzy over a kid having a white mom and a black dad in a fucking…
At 6 pm EDT today, the 9th of September in the Year Of Our Lorde Two Thousande Thirteene, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill will team up to make broadcast history as the first lady-lady duo to anchor a network evening news broadcast as they take the helm of PBS's NewsHour. Heaven help us.
When I was in high school and college, I worked at a nursing home, and when there was no more Boggle to be played or Jello to be eaten, residents loved watching Fox News, hours and hours of men yelling and attractive, smart blonde women pretending to be dumb and concerned.
While critics were debating if Lena Dunham gets too naked too often; or if Melissa McCarthy is too fat to be a movie star Julia Pastrana’s mummified remains were being collected from an Oslo medical facility and sent home to Mexico to be laid to rest. In her death, as in life, the subject of Ms. Pastrana's looks and …
A new blog monitors main strem media's coverage of women’s vs. men’s sports, and it's miiiighty grim.
I need to make an announcement regarding my credibility as a potential future professional woman and as a human being capable of empathy. I read the Daily Mail. Every single day.
One weird thing about being a professional writer is that a lot of people seem to think your job is fake. Up until a couple of years ago, people said shit like this to me all the time: "Oh, you do your little jokes in the newspaper, right? Maybe you can help me write some jokes for my favorite geology professor's going …
In the middle of the Venn diagram between the glass ceiling, the vanilla ceiling, and chilled out dude-itors
A few hours after the 2009 Home Run Derby, Steve Phillips bought Brooke Hundley a drink. They were at the bar of St. Louis's Millenium Hotel, a block from Busch Stadium, where more than a dozen ESPN staffers had gathered after wrapping up another day's work during MLB's extended All-Star weekend. Hundley was a…
Whatever people actually think of her in the newsroom, here are a few of the words used to describe the New York Times’ first female editor in 160 years in a 1,700-word Politico profile:
In response to criticism that it relies far too heavily on male sources, the BBC has taken the famed "binder full of women" technology into the 21st century by launching a database — and an accompanying YouTube channel — of female experts on a variety of topics, with the goal of increasing the female presence on radio…
There has been, and will continue to be with a grand jury
CNN's unconscionable coverage of the Steubenville Rape Case verdict is pissing everyone off. Newscaster Candy Crowley, general correspondent Poppy Harlow, and legal expert Paul Callan all did their very best to focus solely on the guilty verdict's repercussions on the two rapists. There's next to no coverage of the…
Anna Wintour just got a new job. The longtime editor is not leaving Vogue, but she is taking on the additional responsibilities (and salary) of a position created just for her: creative director of Condé Nast, which publishes titles from Vogue to Architectural Digest. Wintour says she wants to help those magazines…
Here's what happens when you ask a six-year-old to create a movie. And what happens is wonderful. According to Mashable:
Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times, told Alec Baldwin's WNYC podcast "Here's the Thing" that she expects herself to help women succeed.
Lack of representation in media is a big problem for women, and it might be an even bigger problem for girls. With so much of today's children's media aimed at boys, it can be hard for girls to know where they belong in the equation. Many mainstream kid's movies go out of their way to hide or obscure their female…
I started to realize something was seriously wrong the other night when the guy in the cowboy hat started shouting about violence.
When Geena Davis waded through the miasma of G-rated movies with her young daughter, she noticed a troubling phenomenon: male characters outnumbered female characters by a pretty striking margin. What's more, male characters were more often portrayed in leadership positions, meaning that, if a young female viewer were…
Just like British GQ ran out of clothes for Lana Del Rey's cover photo, there wasn't a lot provided for Rihanna, in terms of wardrobe, for the "Men Of The Year" issue of American GQ.
Now that all that election nonsense has been settled, this week's issue of Bloomberg Businessweek "reports on the road ahead" for President Obama — which, judging from the cover, involves aging 25 years over the course of the next four. Obviously Barack's going to get a few more gray hairs (the past four years have taken …
Performance artist and professional hate-baby Rush Limbaugh wants women to rush, rush to the phone lines to let him know what it's like to be condescended to. Of course, he notoriously only takes about six heavily-screened calls per three-hour show so the odds of a woman getting through who might be able to explain…
NBC is adapting Emma Koenig's — yes, she of the New York Times trend piece
Writer Andrew Goldman was suspended
Andrew Goldman will not be asking any women if they slept their way to the top for at least one month.
Mega-successful author Jennifer Weiner, a fervent supporter of women writers, has taken the New York Times to task for favoring male authors
New York-based publishing house Penguin Group has filed a dozen lawsuits against prominent authors who received—and kept—large advances for books they failed to deliver.
New York City wants Ken Burns to give up unreleased footage from The Central Park Five, his most recent documentary about five men who were imprisoned but eventually exonerated for allegedly raping a woman in Central Park, and it's not because officials think they deserve an advance screening; the city hopes it can…
